Friday, September 30, 2016

Pioneer in Spain animated drawing and the most important
creator of credit in this country, was a founding member of the Academy, which
in 2007 was awarded the Gold Medal

Director, animator, cartoonist and technical visual
effects, Pablo Nunez, one of the pioneers in the lively in Spain drawing and
the most important creator of credit in this country, died Wednesday in Madrid,
at 86 years old.

founding member of the Film Academy, which in 2007 was
awarded the Gold Medal, Nunez worked in more than 2400 films; directed 32 short
films entertainment and cultural both cartoon and real image with effects,
which won numerous awards at national and international festivals; and he was
responsible for the credits of masterpieces such as Chimes at Midnight,
Tristana and Placido - appropriations latter are a benchmark of modernity and
are considered pioneers in the panorama of Spanish- cinema.

The spinnaker Spirit of the Beehive, The National
Shotgun, The Hive and the south were some of the tapes had the headboard designed
by Pablo Nunez, who also signed the credits Barrio, Others, Beach greyhounds
and visionaries.

Goya Awards nominated five times (by special effects of A
King in Havana Keys of independence and the south of Granada, and directed the
short films A ... Praying Mantis and TV), Pablo Nunez he founded the production
company Story Film, with which both cartoon and real image, made credits for
feature films and TV shows, trailers, optical and digital special effects and
commercials for film and television.

Pablo Nunez (Madrid, 1930) studied Fine Arts at the
School of Arts and Crafts, published his first cartoon in the children 's
magazine "Wonderland" and always alternated his collaborations in
various magazines and publications as an artist with his work of
director-director and screenwriter animation film advertising and
entertainment. His drawings were easily recognizable by their prominent noses
and spot color overlays Cubist type, influenced by the style of American
animation studio UPA Pictures.

The funeral tomorrow in Rome, Basilica of St. Lawrence
Outside the Walls

Il Velino

September 29, 2016

Will be held tomorrow, Saturday, October 1 the funeral of
Laura Troschel the Basilica of Saint Lawrence Outside the Walls at 12:00. The
actress of cinema, theater and television in spite of its great vitality,
energy and the infinite love of life and his family has not been able to win
this last challenge with the disease. Lands young cabaret with Castellacci and
Pingitore on the stage of Bagaglino in the historic setting of the Salone
Margherita collecting from audiences and critics and becoming First Lady. Then
appears on the scene of the Brancaccio theater in Rome to star in two brilliant
musical comedies. Hence his innumerable film holdings as the protagonist and
actress of the '70s and' 80s comedies to name a few: A Blind Man's Bluff (1966)
- 4 Flies on Grey Velvet (1971), directed by Dario Argento - That damn day of
surrender of Auditors (1971) - Nero (1976) - the first night of marriage (1976)
- Seriously priest (1978) - All in squola (1979) - the bumbling (1979) - the
cage (1985) - mercenaries tell (1985) - Crimes (1987) - Right to kill (2005).

For television he led in '79 "Once upon a time
Rome" and in the fall of 80 the prime time program "Checkmate"
combined with the Lottery Italy. Among the many investments that also in the
series "The boys in the wall" and the soap opera "A place in the
sun." But the theater has always been his true love where she performed
comedies but also of great depth roles whose purpose was to express emotions
and feelings he believed in strongly, especially related to the themes of
family and love. Among its most important holdings "the coffee shop"
by C. Goldoni with Arnoldo Foa national tour, "the Barzotte" with Martufello,
Max Tortora and Lorenza Guerrieri written by Pingitore for Troschel, "last
Minute" with Sandra Milo Guido Polito and his last performance as the
protagonist in "Christmas Enchantment" by Paola Nicoletti. Great
sympathy and affection towards the family by part of all the friends and
colleagues, especially his son Simone, his wife Gaia and her beloved
grandchildren. Tomorrow Saturday, October 1 the funeral home will be open from
8:30 to 11:00, at the hospital Policlinico Gemelli in Rome. The funeral will be
held at the Basilica of San Lorenzo al Verano Outside the Walls to 12 hours.

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Shepard "Shep" Sanders passed away on September
14th, 2016 in Palm Springs, CA at the age of 88. He was born in Chicago,
Illinois to parents Edward Seltzer and Rose Seltzer, and had two brothers,
Michael and Dan. At the early age of 15, he forged his birth certificate so he
could join the Navy during WW2. After the War, he used the money from his G.I.
Bill to move to Los Angeles and begin his acting career, but due to the
blacklist during the McCarthy Era, he had to change his name from Sherwin
Seltzer to Shepard Sanders.

After traveling the world and shooting films, including
Kelly's Heroes and The Sand Pebbles, he and his wife Tianne Sanders bought a
home in Palm Springs in the early 60's, where they settled down and started a
family. In his later years, Shep worked at Michael's House, where he found
comfort in healing and helping people up until shortly before his death.
Proceeded in death by his daughter Kim Sanders, and grandson Christopher
Finkle. He is survived by honorable friends and close family, including his wife
Tianne Sanders, daughter Trinza Sanders, son-in-law John Trad, and
grandchildren Taylor Ann Trad, Jarrod Michael Trad, and Jonathan Bashar Trad.
We will be holding a memorial on Saturday, October 1st from 12:00-2:30PM at
Insight Community of the Desert (1111 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way, Palm Springs, CA
92262). Anyone is welcome.

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Yvan
Chiffre, a former director and stuntman in many films, including being Alain
Delon’s double, died this morning at the age of 80, in Adissan Hérault, his
grandson son César Chiffre told AFP.

Born in Paris on March 3, 1936, Yvan Chiffre had specialized in fighting with
knives and tumbling over waterfalls. He participated in "La Grande
Vadrouille", "La Tulipe Noire", "Fantomas","Z",
"Zorro" and the series "Thierry La Fronde".

He also staged several films stunts for Les Charlots and made a film with them,
"Bons baisers de Hong Kong". He is also the director of a film with Coluche,"Le
fou du roi".

Besides his film career, he set up a company of mounted knights for medieval
shows. He published an autobiography in 1992 Denoël, "À l'ombre des stars
: 30 ans d'action dans le cinéma" (In the Shadow of Stars: 30 years of
action in the cinema).

Chiffre
is the father of actor Philippe Chiffre and the grandfather of producer, director,
actor César Chiffre.

Monday, September 26, 2016

Horror filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis, known as the
“Godfather of Gore” for his bloody exploitation movies that launched the
splatter genre in the 1960s with films such as “Blood Feast” and “Two Thousand
Maniacs,” died Monday at 87.

The Something Weird Video site announced his death.

“Blood Feast,” made in 1963 in Miami, was considered to
be the horror genre’s first splatter film. Variety called it a “totally inept
shocker” that was “an insult even to the most puerile and salacious of
audiences,” with a “senseless” screenplay and “amateurish” acting.

His films supplied grindhouse cinemas and drive-ins with
titles including “A Taste of Blood,” “The Wizard of Gore,” “The Gruesome
Twosome,” “Scum of the Earth!” and “She-Devils on Wheels.”

Beginning in the 1960s, his early films with the late
producer David F. Friedman were skewed toward soft-core erotica. Lewis’s other
films also took on subjects that were taboo at the time including the birth
control pill “(The Girl, The Body, and The Pill”) and wife-swapping (“Suburban
Roulette”).

He took a lengthy break from directing after 1972’s “The
Gore Gore Girls” to work in direct marketing but returned in 2002 with “Blood
Feast 2: All U Can Eat,” which included a cameo from a longtime fan, John
Waters.

In addition to being a filmmaker, Lewis taught college
literature, worked in radio and produced and directed TV commercials. He wrote
several books on marketing and copywriting.

About Me

Born in Toledo, Ohio in 1946 I have a BA degree in American History from Cal St. Northridge. I've been researching the American West and western films since the early 1980s and visiting filming sites in Spain and the U.S.A. Elected a member of the Spaghetti Western Hall of Fame 2010.